Book · Cultural history
Red Sovine and the Sound of American Sentiment
Country music, truck-driving songs, and the machinery of feeling.
- Stage
- Research
- Detail
- Primary-source verification
- Form
- Book-length biography
- Research
- Trade-press chronology, census records, archival outreach
- Support
- First grant applications submitted
A book-length biography and cultural history of the country singer behind some of America’s strangest, saddest truck-driving songs.
The work is at the verification stage: building the chronology from trade press, census records, and archival outreach, and checking each claim against a primary source before it goes in the book.
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